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15Aug2005

Top ten followup

DateMonday, August 15, 2005 at 08:19PM

Please keep in mind my Top 10 list is a lot like HeismanPundit's lists, more of a power ranking.

It's not a predicted poll finish.  Pollsters follow a very generic and often trivial formula centered around number of losses, opponents played, and conference strength.  That is to say all things being equal, a 10-1 SEC power will be ranked higher than a 10-1 Big East Power, who would be ahead of a 10-1 MAC power.  Its slotting.  I don't slot.

I will also add that I will continue to adjust it as games are played, much like I did all of last year!  My rankings changed a lot, and I learned a lot in doing them.  But I'm not one to simply parrot everyone else's polls.  They get it all wrong most of the time anyway!

We'll see where this takes us, but I'm high on the Big Six as you are well aware.

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Well, if it's your objective to be different, you've succeeded. And, you're correct in one sense, polls, all polls change and evolve. But, it's different to have ranked a team 5th and it ends up at number 10 or 12 than to rank a team 5th and it not be in the top 20 at the end.
August 16, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterDawgy1
regardless of whether this is a "power ranking" or "anti-slotting" or whatever, whenever you rank any team against another in sports you really have to ask yourself this one and only question: will team A beat team B if they played tomorrow? if yes, you rank team A higher than team B.

that simple.

so, do you REALLY HONESTLY think that louisville, cal, boise state and auburn could all beat VT, miami, texas, OU, michigan, ohio state, georgia and tennessee? tomorrow?

come on, really.

how about changing your poll name to "teams on the rise with interesting offensive scheming and coaching that i'll pay particularly close attention to this season". that label seems more honest.
August 16, 2005 | Unregistered Commentercw
"Please keep in mind my Top 10 list is a lot like HeismanPundit's lists"

do you mean completely feck-tarded by that? do you really think if Boise State were to magically show up in the Big Ten next week they would end up the conference champion? This is a team that beat Tulsa by three, that needed OT to beat SJSU.
August 16, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterBrian
wow, an analysis that uses comparative scoring. Really deep. Rankings have nothing to do with how a team would do in a different conference. As we've tried to explain to you before, conferences have different styles of play which influences outcomes. Which is why Stanford came close to beating USC than OU did and why Oregon can lose to Indiana one year and beat Michigan the next. You should have asked him if he thought Boise would beat Michigan. You and I both know that the answer to that is 'yes.'
August 16, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterHeismanpundit
overemphasizing the result of one game is bad, but if you look at Boise's performance over the last few years there are many close shaves against poor teams.

"You should have asked him if he thought Boise would beat Michigan. You and I both know that the answer to that is 'yes.'"

This is pretty much my point. Someone puts a gun to your head and tells you to bet on a Boise-Michigan game straight up, win = live, lose = die, and you guys take Boise? You guys take Boise over all but three or four teams nationwide? Uh... good luck with that.
August 16, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterBrian
Well, I will not have Boise No. 5 in my final rankings. They will probably be more like No. 10 (you know, about where people think UGA is).

As for 'betting your life', what another silly notion. I bet if you bet your life on a lot of games with Michigan you'd have been dead several times by now.

August 18, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterHeismanpundit
"As for 'betting your life', what another silly notion. I bet if you bet your life on a lot of games with Michigan you'd have been dead several times by now."

Do you intentionally ignore peoples' points or is it more an inability to grasp simple concepts?
August 18, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterBrian
Please show me the point, oh king of pointlessness.
August 20, 2005 | Unregistered CommenterHeismanpundit

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